2016 Postmortem

The email fiasco was just that - a fiasco. The larger problem there was the clunkiness of communications across departments. State Officials always look like idiots trying to streamline their correspondence. Hillary chose the easier option, sent emails from the wrong server, didn't understand the fuss about it all and at first treated the whole hulabaloo with contempt. The problem with the email fiasco was the poor explanations of very complicated methods of communications - I don't even think some on her staff or any of her aides understood it all but they understood the political implications, it was going to be a ripe Clinton Scandal, inspite Clinton's attempts to explain and her repeated apologies. For a woman who despises the press ,sometimes with good reason, many in the press were not prepared to give her any leeway or benefit of the doubt. So this thing - like all Clinton scandals - mushroomed into a nuke sized scandal with ridiculous comparisons to Watergate - And Republicans have been itching to find a democratic equivalent to Nixon and who better than a Clinton.